Everything we know about automating NIFTY and SENSEX options

F&O trading is treated as business income, which changes everything about how you report it. What that means in practice and the records to keep from day one.

The regulatory picture in plain terms: what is permitted, who carries which obligation, and which rules are actually your broker's problem rather than yours.

Buying options caps your loss at the premium. Selling them does not. Which structures carry unlimited risk, what margin actually protects, and how to size so the answer stays no.

Your funds stay in your own broker account at all times. What a trading platform actually touches, what it cannot do, and the questions worth asking any platform about custody.

Why nobody can answer this for you, what determines the outcome, the specific ways the question is answered dishonestly, and how to find out for yourself at the lowest possible cost.

What an API key can and cannot do, how credentials should be stored by a trading platform, the warning signs of bad handling, and what to do if you think a key has been exposed.

Algo trading is legal for retail traders in India through broker-approved API access. What that permission actually covers, which obligations sit with you, and why the setup requirements exist.